New America Foundation

The New America Foundation is a Washington D.C.-headquartered think tank which states that it "invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States ... With an emphasis on big ideas, impartial analysis and pragmatic solutions, New America invests in outstanding individuals whose ability to communicate to wide and influential audiences can change the country's policy discourse in critical areas, bringing promising new ideas and debates to the fore."

The foundation, which was launched in 1999, has as its CEO Steve Coll, a staff writer with The New Yorker magazine while the chairman of the Board of Directors is the Chairman & CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt.

Contributions:
Collaborated with the Atlantic Monthly on a special report in 2003, "What is the real State of the Union?"

Phillip Longman, a New America Foundation member, authored the book The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity (And What to Do About It).

Donors:

 * David and Lucile Packard Foundation
 * Pew Charitable Trusts
 * John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Board of Directors

 * Eric Benhamou - Chairman & CEO, Benhamou Global Ventures and Chairman, 3Com Corporation
 * Scott Delman - Founder, Capital Z Investment Partners
 * James Fallows - Chairman, New America Foundation
 * Francis Fukuyama - Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
 * Ted Halstead - Founding President & CEO, New America Foundation
 * Noosheen Hashemi - President, HAND Foundation
 * Laurene Powell Jobs - President of the Board, College Track
 * Kati Marton - Author and Journalist
 * Walter Russell Mead - Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
 * Lenny Mendonca - Chairman, McKinsey Global Institute
 * Steven Rattner - Managing Principal, Quadrangle Group, LLC
 * Diane Ravitch - Research Professor of Education, New York University
 * Eric Schmidt - Chairman & CEO, Google, Inc.
 * Bernard L. Schwartz - Retired Chairman and CEO, Loral Space & Communications Ltd.
 * Anne-Marie Slaughter - Dean, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
 * Laura D'Andrea Tyson - Dean, London Business School
 * Christine Todd Whitman - President, Whitman Strategy Group
 * Daniel Yergin - Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates
 * Fareed Zakaria - Editor, Newsweek International

Leadership Council
"New America's Leadership Council, chaired by John C. Whitehead, recognizes those individuals who contribute $25,000 or more to the Foundation each year. As members of the Leadership Council, they participate in the intellectual life of the Foundation in numerous ways. For instance, they are invited to attend a special annual retreat with New America senior staff, Fellows and Board of Directors, as well as a series of salon dinners across the country.

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 * Eric A. Benhamou - Chairman, 3Com Corporation & Palm Inc.; Chairman and CEO, Benhamou Global Ventures, LLC
 * Susan Chambers - Executive Vice President, Wal-Mart
 * Lewis B. Cullman - Founder & CEO, Cullman Ventures, Inc.
 * Laurene Powell Jobs - President of the Board, College Track
 * Peter Marber - Global Head of GEM Fixed Income and Currencies, HSBC Halbis Partners
 * Aria Mehrabi - Principal & Co-Founder, Pacific Star Capital
 * Lenny Mendonca - Chairmain, McKinsey Global Institute
 * Eric Mindich - Founder, Eton Park Capital Management
 * Steven Rattner - Managing Principal, Quadrangle Group, LLC
 * Eric Schmidt - Chairman & CEO, Google, Inc.
 * Bernard L. Schwartz -Retired Chairman & CEO, Loral Space & Communications Ltd.
 * Harry Sloan - Chairman & CEO, MGM, Inc.
 * Jonathan Soros - President & Co-Deputy Chairman, Soros Fund Management, LLC
 * John C. Whitehead - Chairman, The Goldman Sachs Foundation

Fellows

 * Noah Feldman
 * Parag Khanna
 * James Pinkerton
 * Mark Schmitt is senior fellow

Contact:

 * The New America Foundation
 * Located in Historic Dupont Circle, at
 * 1630 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. 7th Floor
 * Washington, DC 20009
 * Phone: (202) 986-2700
 * Fax: (202) 986-3696
 * Website:www.newamerica.net

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Anatol Lieven
 * Frida Berrigan - Senior Program Associate
 * Think tanks

External articles

 * J.H. Snider, "Mixing Advocacy, Scholarly Research and Journalism: Can the New America Foundation Square the Circle?", PR Watch, February 26, 2009.